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One woman’s simple, three-step guide to surviving a night on your own.

Starring Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Maika Monroe (It Follows, Watcher)

"How To Be Alone" Director’s Statement:
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More About "How To Be Alone":
LUCY (Maika Monroe) doesn’t like to be left alone.

This becomes a problem when her husband JACK (Joe Keery) leaves to work the graveyard shift at the hospital. Now Lucy is confronted with 12 hours of solitude, trapped alone in their apartment with her greatest fear: a particular kitchen cupboard that seems to contain all her nightmares.

But Lucy will be okay. She’s got a system. What’s the worst that could happen?

As the night progresses and darkness closes in, Lucy obsessively fixates on the cabinet, quickly slipping into bad habits as she struggles to ignore the horrors that seem to be calling to her from inside the cupboard. Led by her extremely unreliable narration, we follow Lucy down the rabbit hole to a place where the lines between fantasy and reality blur, and the mundane becomes monstrous.

Caught in a game of cat and mouse with her own anxiety, Lucy doggedly tries to maintain control until the very end, when the Pandora’s box finally cracks open and her world devolves into a candy-colored freak show of fear and desire, power and paranoia, babies and blood and massive snakes and worse.

Ultimately, Lucy is forced to face the fact that the most terrifying thing lurking in her apartment is her own mind, and must find a way to combat her fear before she is consumed by it entirely.

Set in an increasingly claustrophobic atmosphere of domestic dread, HOW TO BE ALONE explores themes of codependence, identity crisis, and pregnancy anxiety. Lucy’s spiraling mind relentlessly asks questions none of us want to answer: who are you when no one is watching? What are you capable of? What’s really in that cupboard?

"How To Be Alone" Credits:
Written and Directed by Kate Trefry

Cast:
Maika Monroe
Joe Keery

Crew:
Cinematographer/Caleb Heymann
Editor/David Pergolini
Composer/Michael Dean Parsons
Composer/John Kaefer
Production Designer/Susannah Lowber
Colorist/Bryan Smaller
Supervising Sound Editor/Trevor Gates

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